Creating bleed and safety guides

If you need bleed and/or safety guides, you can add them with Guide Manager Pro rather than altering the page size or drawing your own guides.

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Here, red bleed guides are placed 9 pts outside the page while green safety guides are placed 9 pts inside the page.

To create bleed and/or safety guides on the active page:

  1. Choose Create Bleed and Safety Guides from the Guides palette menu.
  2. For bleed guides, check Bleed, enter a value in the Gutter field to specify how far outside the page to place the guides, and then choose an option from the Color menu.
  3. For safety guides, check Safety, enter a value in the Gutter field to specify how far inside the page to place the guides, and then choose an option from the Color menu.
  4. Use the View Scale and Locked controls as you do in the Guide Attributes dialog box (see “Creating guides with Guide Manager Pro“).
  5. To apply the bleed and safety guides to multiple pages, use the Spread Range controls.
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    You can add bleed and safety guides to master pages and layout pages.

  6. Click Preview to see the guides on-screen, and then click OK.

Creating bleed and safety guides